european colonization

For a while, I've been considering this proposition. Why didn't the European powers colonize Africa (like heavily, similar to Spain in the Americas) before the Americas?

So I found this timeline: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/uit-de-blauwe-a-european-south-africa.399045/ And a continuation of it: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/uit-de-blauwe-a-european-south-africa-salvage-and-continuation.414837/ So maybe I want to continue...

Would it be possible, with a POD after 1520 or so, for there to be a native state in North America that resists European colonization? This is an incredibly tall order, of course, given their relatively small population when compared to places like Mesoamerica and the Andes at the time of...

During the 1600s and 1700s, European explorers, colonists, and slave traders were aware of various African kingdoms along the Atlantic coast and mapped them out as best they could. At some point in the 1800s however, some of these maps started having large blank spots where kingdoms once...

In the 19th Century, the European Powers held the Berlin Conference, which divided the continent of Africa, between themselves. When people think about Imperialism and Colonialism, they think of economic exploitation of the land and it's native people. While that statement is true and there's no...

I'm wondering what various patterns of colonisation for the West Indies could have unfolded: Spain was obviously the country who started it all up, followed by England, France and the United Provinces. And then through wars isles were passed between power... ... but what if those countries...

Hello everyone, I have been building an alternate story a few months ago in which Brazil became a great power comparable to the power of France during the 19th and 20th century. In this world Brazil industrialized very early being one of the first places to industrialize, after its independence...

Literally the title, what if the europeans conquered the Americas? As all we know, they tried, but after the defeats against the Inca and Aztec empires, the europeans lost their grip in the "Let's conquer them all!". The french gave up after the iroquoian conquest of Quebéc and the english...

How to make it posible that no european power or USA holds overseas territories? For that matter everything in the caribbean and other seas and oceans should be independent or part of a nearby independent state. The only no continuos territory USA is allowed to hold is Alaska and maybe Hawaii...

Africa these days, is a complicated and messy place to say the least. Home to many civil wars, disease outbreaks, ethnic tensions, a history of exploitation by western powers, and depressing cases of starvation and malnourishment caused by all of the aforementioned. Even a person more ignorant...

I have read extensively about the russo Japanese war, and according to what I have read it seems quite evident that by 1905 the Russians were already starting to overwhelm the Japanese, but they were forced to look for peace for other reasons. Now I want to discuss with you guys the likelihood...

Is there any way Sweden not only be able to keep, but possibly even expand its colony of New Sweden much longer in our timeline? At least all the way until the 19th or 20th Century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden What lead the downfall of the colony? http://www.mceas.org/Williams.pdf

What would have happened if the europeans had sticked to the previous patterns of African colonization, so no colonies in central africa but only in places were European immigrants can settle and trade posts. The pod could be less protectionist policies, the need for new markets created the need...

If the Vikings stayed in America and America was known about by Europe hundreds of years before Columbus. Would there be a sort of Scramble for America? Would there be meeting by European nations like the Berlin conference to divide America between the European nations? Who would win and who...

Is there any PoD for an european royal head of state to visit at least one region of the Americas, before the Portuguese royal family's flight from Napoleon's armies to Brazil in 1808?

So what if the penal colonies had a greater level of popularity by the various colonial powers of the 19th Century? With the various great powers sending criminals and their families to their overseas colonies in the same vain has Britain and Australia. Examples: Spanish to the Philippines and...

So, what if in 1595 doña Isabel Barreto gets the situation under control and consolidates the Spanish colony in Santa Cruz Islands (OTL part of the Solomon Islands, and they remain a Spanish colony until 1899? Would the islands population (21,364) be bigger because of Spanish and other European...

In this book from 1768 Hon. George Murray advocates that the island of New Britain should be settled by British. John Campbell had already suggested the same some 20 years earlier. However, I set my events after 1768, because in 1767 Sir Philip Carteret had discovered and claimed for Britain New...